Any resource script (*.rc) auto-update tool

[l***@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I encountered some problems.
Can anyone help me?

I am in charge of maintaining multi-lingual resource scripts for some
softwares.
Whenever English resource script was update by a developer,
I have to find out where's the modifications and manually copy and
paste the modifications to other lingual resource scripts accordingly.

Is there any easy tool which can help me to auto detect the
modifications of the English rc file and then auto update to the other
lingual resource scripts?


Thanks~
Lychee26

[Brian Inglis]

On 5 May 2005 02:33:32 -0700 in comp.software.international,

Post by l***@gmail.com
Hi all,
I encountered some problems.
Can anyone help me?
I am in charge of maintaining multi-lingual resource scripts for some
softwares.
Whenever English resource script was update by a developer,
I have to find out where's the modifications and manually copy and
paste the modifications to other lingual resource scripts accordingly.
Is there any easy tool which can help me to auto detect the
modifications of the English rc file and then auto update to the other
lingual resource scripts?

If you're using a configuration or source control system (and if
you're not, you should be!), it may have notification options, which
you can set up to email you to let you know when a script has been
modified.
Or a periodic scheduled task to run a scan of the resource scripts for
files modified since the last scan.
Or have the developers email you a copy when they make changes!

Not sure how you could autoupdate translations of English changes into
other languages.

[Jon Waisnor]

Greetings Lychee26,

Is this in actuality a merge issue? You want to merge the changed english
strings in to the target language .rc file.
Do you have a good diff/ merge tool?

The other term for this is to "leverage". Some tools, Alchemy Catalyst for
one, will allow you to take the new english version and merge the existing
target language into it to create a new target file.

Post by l***@gmail.com
Hi all,
I encountered some problems.
Can anyone help me?
I am in charge of maintaining multi-lingual resource scripts for some
softwares.
Whenever English resource script was update by a developer,
I have to find out where's the modifications and manually copy and
paste the modifications to other lingual resource scripts accordingly.
Is there any easy tool which can help me to auto detect the
modifications of the English rc file and then auto update to the other
lingual resource scripts?
Thanks~
Lychee26

[l***@gmail.com]

Thank you! Jon,

Using the diff/merge tool is what I am doing now.

Actually I am looking for a faster way which I can use to merge the
changed english strings into up to 26 lingual rc files automatically.
For example, whenever a dialog was added to the english rc file, some
tool can help me to add that new dialog to the other lingual rc files
accordingly.

I believe Alchemy Catalyst can do this, but, Catalyst might reset the
positions and dimentions of dialogs in rc files.
(Also the result of resizing dialogs with Alchemy Catalyst is different
from the real display when program is running.)

Is there any tool can add only the new added portions to taget rc files
but not edit the other portions?

reagrds,
Lychee26